pt. 1. The dimensions of anthropology
Adaptation, variation, and change
Cultural forces shape human biology
The subdisciplines of anthropology
Archaeological anthropology
Interesting issues : even anthropologists get culture shock
Biological, or physical, anthropology
Beyond the classroom : the utility of hand and foot bones for problems in biological anthropology
Anthropology and other academic fields
Cultural anthropology and sociology
Anthropology and psychology
Science, explanation, and hypothesis testing
The role of the applied anthropologist
Academic and applied anthropology
Anthropology and education
Beyond the classroom : new life, good health
Anthropology and business
pt. 2. Physical anthropology and archaeology
3. Ethics and methods in physical anthropology and archaeology
Multidisciplinary approaches
Interesting issues : a novel method of assessing why people cooperate
4. Evolution and genetics
Creationism and evolution
Independent assortment and recombination
Mechanisms of genetic evolution
Human biological adaptation
Beyond the classroom : a behavioral ecology study of two lemur species
Interesting issues : saving the orangutan
Human-primate similarities
Human-primate differences
Behavioral ecology and fitness
Bringing it all together : saving the forests
Afropithecus and Kenyapithecus
Beyond the classroom : maceration of a Canadian lynx
Chronology of hominid evolution
Ardipithecus and Kenyanthropus
The varied Australopithecines
Australopithecus afarensis
Gracile and robust Australopithecines
The Australopithecines and early Homo
H. rudolfensis and H. habilis
A. garhi and early stone tools
Beyond the classroom : hydrodynamic sorting of avian skeletal remains
Adaptive strategies of Homo erectus
The evolution and expansion of Homo erectus
The Neandertals and modern people
Interesting issues : prehistoric art treasure is found in French cave
Beyond the classroom : Paleolithic butchering at Verberie
Bringing it all together : when did humans start acting like humans?
9. Human diversity and "race"
Race : a discredited concept in biology
Races are not biologically distinct
Interesting issues : American Anthropological Association (AAA) statement on "race"
Beyond the classroom : skin pigmentation in Papua New Guinea
Hypodescent : race in the United States
Phenotype and fluidity : race in Brazil
Stratification and "intelligence"
The first farmers and herders in the Middle East
Genetic changes and domestication
Food production and the state
Interesting issues : the Iceman
The first American farmers
America's first immigrants
The foundations of food production
Early farming in the Mexican highlands
From early farming to the state
Beyond the classroom : late postclassic economy in Northern Belize
11. The first cities and states
State formation in the Middle East
Social ranking and chiefdoms
How ethnography helps in interpreting the archaeological record
Beyond the classroom : the Akhenaten Temple Project
State formation in Mesoamerica
Early chiefdoms and elites
States in the valley of Mexico
Long-distance trade routes
Population, war, and circumscription
Interesting issues : pseudo-archaeology
Bringing it all together : the peopling of the Pacific.
